Cost of Living in the United States and in Foreign Countries

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countries for June and December 1933, 1934, March, July, and October 1935, and January, April, and July 1936 is shown in the following table. In cases where data for July 1936 are not available, the latest information is given and the month noted. The number of countries included varies according to the available information.

A general index and index numbers for the individual groups of items are presented for all countries shown with the exception of Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Peru, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. Four countries publish a general index and an index number for food only.

Caution should be observed in the use of the figures because of differences in the base periods, in the number and kind of articles included, and the number of localities represented. There are also very radical differences in the method of the construction and calculation of the indexes.

The table shows the trend in the general cost of living and for the groups of food, clothing, fuel and light, and rent for the countries for which such information is published in original sources.

Table 8.-Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries

Table 8.-Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries-Continued

Table 8.-Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries-Continued

RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF LABOR

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September 1936

Agricultural Conditions

Agricultural statistics, 1936. Washington, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1936. 421 pp.

This volume presents information such as was formerly published in the statistical section of the Yearbook of Agriculture.

Yearbook of agriculture, 1936. Washington, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1936. 1189 pp., maps, diagrams, illus.

Eesti põllumajandus, statistiline aastaraamat, 1935. Tallinn, Statistika Keskbüroo, 1936. 172 pp., maps, charts.

A yearbook of Estonian agricultural statistics including data on wages of farm hands and shepherds and on cost of living.

The table of contents and table heads are in both Estonian and French. Recherches relatives à la rentabilité de l'agriculture [in Switzerland] pendant l'exercice 1934-35. Rapport du Secrétariat des paysans suisses au Département Fédéral de l'Economie publique, IIe partie. Berne, 1936. 125 pp. (In French and German.)

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Contains data on expenses of Swiss farmers, amounts of various kinds of food consumed by farm families, gross return from farm activities, etc. also given on value of wages paid in kind to farm servants.

Care of the Blind

Twenty-first annual report of Indiana Board of Industrial Aid for the Blind, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1935. Indianapolis, 1936. 28 pp., illus.

This report of the board's activities also contains the texts of the State acts providing for training, placement, and pensions for the blind.

Blind pensions in Wisconsin, 1907-1934. (In Outlook for the Blind, New York, June 1936, pp. 110-123.)

This article, a reprint of a report by the Wisconsin State Board of Control, gives detailed statistics and analysis.

Cooperative Movement

Consumers' cooperative statutes in the United States. Washington, U. S. Depart-
ment of Labor, Consumers' Project, 1936. 186 pp., mimeographed.
Texts of the various State laws on consumers' cooperation.

Credit for consumers. By LeBaron R. Foster. Washington, Public Affairs
Committee, 1936. 31 pp., charts. (Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 5.)
Brief descriptions of the various sources of credit for consumers, including
credit unions.

Cost of Living

Cost of living in the United States, 1914-1936. By M. Ada Beney. New York, National Industrial Conference Board, Inc., 247 Park Avenue, 1936. 99 pp., charts. (Study No. 228.)

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